Dress-stay



' M. M. BEBMAN.

DRESS STAY.

No. 507,875. Patented (m. 31,1893.

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MARCUS M. BEEMAN, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

DRESS-STAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 507,87 5, dated October 31, 1893.

Application filed July 9, 1892. Serial No. 439,445. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARCUS M. BEEMAN, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Dress-Stays, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description. I

My invention relates to the construction of dress stays or stiffeners for corsets and other garments.

My object is to produce the stays or stilfeners for corsets and other garments in which the elasticity, usually imparted by the whale-' bone, is produced by a round or flattened wire bent as hereinafter described and shown so that the stay maybe bent laterally or otherwise at the same time assuring its speedy return to its normal position.

My invention consists in the several novel features of construction hereinafter described and specifically set forth in the claim hereinto annexed. It is constructed as follows reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1, is a view of the stay complete, one end of the cover being turned up to show the stiifener. Fig. 2, is. a view of the stifiening wire detached. Fig. 3, is a view of one end of thecomplete stay.

A-, is the flexible metallic body, consisting of a continuous piece of spring wire, bent laterally forward and back, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and in such manner that the eyes or openings between the bends are circular at their outer ends, and taper in the line of their length, or transverse to said body, and are so formed by bending the wire first to form the circular outer ends, and then bending the wire toward the starting end of said body so that it touches and overlaps the side of the adjoining round bend of said wire. This bending of the wire so that the sides of the eyes, on both sides of. the body are in close contact with and overlap each other, gives each side of an eye a bearing upon the side of the adjoining eye, whether the body is bent flatwise, forward or back, or laterally and edge wise. The overlapping of the eyes upon each other, readily permits sliding of the eyes, one over the other, which tends to decrease the length of the radius of the curve when the body is bent in any direction, forward, back, or sidewise, and absolutely prevents any short bends and conseqnentbreakage, or consequent destruction of the resiliency of the spring, at the apex of the short bend, which causes the body to stay bent; and on the other hand largely increases the resilient action of the wire, stiffens the body, prevents the wire from becoming set when the body is bent, and thus causes the body to always spring back to its normal'position. A covering-lconsists of a piece of fabric pasted or secured upon the front or back, or both, having a projecting end adapted to be folded over the end of the spring body, as a protection, as shown in Fig. 3.

I am aware that a wire has been bent to be used as a corset clasp, in which the portions between the round bends are parallel to each other; and I am also awareawire has been heretofore bent in a wavy outline as in the patent to Wheeler and McQuesten, dated September 4, 1888, No. 388,936; but neither of these is my invention, in that in neither of them do the sides of the bends have a positive bearing upon each other.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an improved article of manufacture, a dress stay comprising a body consisting of a wire bent to form a series of oppositely disposed pear shaped eyes, each side of which normally bears against and partly overlaps the adjacent side of the adjoining eye, and a protecting covering secured to and inclosing said body, as specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this lst day of July, 1892.

MARCUS M. BEEMAN.

In presence of HOWARD P. DENISON, O. W. SMITH. 

